National Library Services has been informed by the Alternative Media Center at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that it will not produce IRS tax documents in braille for automatic distribution to libraries.

Network libraries and visually impaired taxpayers may visit the IRS accessibility page by clicking here, for a list of accessible tax products in braille, text, and audio formats available for download.

Individuals may also order hard-copy braille and large-print documents by calling the IRS' toll-free number at 800-829-3676.

Our Latest South Carolina Recording

CBC 479
Grace at Low Tide
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Description: DeVeaux DeLoach's blue-blood father has declared bankruptcy after too many bad business deals, so the DeLoaches must leave their fancy Charleston home for a small country cottage. DeVeaux has to pull out of her posh prep school and take a weekend job. As her father's schemes to recoup his losses come to nothing, he grows steadily more angry. DeVeaux is kept afloat by her Christian faith, a cousin and the youth group leader at her church.

To order a copy, call 1-(800)-922-7818 or visit the TBS online catalog at http://www.klas.com/scbph.

A new feature of our local recording program is to invite the author to visit the State Library and participate in a discussion about the book and then post it on the Talking Books website as a podcast

On Friday, February 22, 2008, Beth Webb Hart, the author of Grace at Low Tide visited the Talking Books Library in Columbia.  Click here to listen to an interview with her and to hear an excerpt form the book.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literature reading in American popular culture. The Big Read brings community resources together to facilitate and encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment.

Talking Book Services is joining forces with partners here in South Carolina in making available A lesson before dying by Ernest Gaines, the NEA’s Big Read title.  The book is available to our patrons in audio format RC 36694.  To request this title call out toll free number 1-800-922-7818.